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"Terrible to dress in the clothes
of a period that must end."--Frank Bidart 

"You must remember that certain things die out for a while/ so they can be remembered with affection later on." --John Ashbery

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THE DEEP WEB

1/14/2015

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It was the year of under-eyelid camera bras.

At first we would disguise indigo veins, matching the bras
to our skin color like Band-Aids

then a flaunt of brights, fluorescents, two-tone, and even glow-in-the-dark
no one ever looked tired, even if they were feeling tired.

Digital arteries with skin-matching blood and voxels
replaced the bras so we could document every living moment.

I stayed awake for days and days until I saw sparkles of light dancing in space.

Some people didn’t sleep for months and turned into spongecake.
Later that year those of us who gave in

took a long nap and discovered our dream-cams
recorded the future.

--Boni Joi



Boni Joi was born in North Miami Beach, Florida, raised in New Jersey and discovered her lost lineage in Salem, Massachusetts. She has read and performed her poems at numerous venues in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere including Switzerland, Canada, and England. Boni works an archivist and lives with her husband musical chef Tobi Joi in Brooklyn. http://www.spdbooks.org/producte/9780979149535/before-during-or-after-rainstorms.aspx






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olivia
7/28/2015 01:37:43 am

--sounds like our old fashion/makeup days gone terribly wrong! Good thing there are dream-cams!

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    Hi. I'm Joanna Fuhrman. This is a prose poetry/flash fiction blog in conversation with my  serial prose poem "The Year of Yellow Butterflies" (The Year Of Yellow Butterflies, Hanging Loose Press 2015). I had fun writing these poems about fads and trends from imaginary pasts. If you would like to add your own section, write me and I can post it (along with a short bio). Start with "It was the year...."  
    "In this extraordinary book, Fuhrman seamlessly oscillates between illusion and reality, childhood and maturity, the animal kingdom (a "babbling...walrus," a "creaky bird," a "bunny rabbit") and technology ("a baby's rebooted brains," "Virgil's internet").  She gives new life to the prose poem.  The Year of Yellow Butterflies is killer--not only Fuhrman's best book to date, but her most poignant.  "--Noelle Kocot

    "With the impish charm of an illusionist and the dazzling patter of a tummler in a Borscht Belt resort, Joanna Fuhrman suspends our expectations in The Year of Yellow Butterflies, sending us head over heels into zones of cosmic and technological bafflement and sudden parabolic grief....in this book full of brilliant predicaments and pleasures."—Rachel Loden
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